Hi! All the way from South Africa

[madjack]

...that is a priceless story, I can just see it, and the pics would be icing on the cake...if you look in the index at the top of this page you will see a button labeled "Album:...just click it and scroll about halfway down the page and you will see a link titled" "your personal gallery"...click it and then follow the directions posted here... http://www.mikenchell.com/pichelp.html ...that is all that is needed to create your own personal gallery here on the board.....
madjack

[sitnievasnie]

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.... Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....

Why are simple things always so darned complicated??

I gotta resize all da photos

Hasta be Madjacks fault!

As a TT guy, he shoulda known that: -

1) NOTHING'S SIMPLE
2) It's always the "10Minute jobs" that take f-o-r-e-v-e-r

Any help?

Warren

[madjack]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/down ... rtoys.mspx
...if you are using WindowsXP on your 'puter, scroll down to "image Resizer"...download and install...it will give you the ability to right click any pic on your 'puter and resize it...very simple...

...if you want/need something else that is fairly simple, try http://www.irfanview.com/ it will do many multimedia tasks and is not a memory hog...save as a 640x480 and 72dpi and you will be good to go with either of them...
madjack

[sitnievasnie]

Madjack Ta

Yr really stretching my comfort zone... I actually did get pictures into me album,

I put in some photo's (big demand for photos) regards the "story", but personally photo's somehow don't do justice.

I much prefer that me tales be the picture, and the reader's imagination be the photo.

MAY YOU AND ALL YOUR FELLOW FORUMNITES ENJOY YR 4TH JULY CELEBRATION :P

Thanks mate
Warren

[madjack]

W, glad to see ya got the pic thingy figured out...no pics could do justice to the story of the wee lass and the hog...I like the side tent on your caravan...didja just back it up until you got stuck???
madjack

[sitnievasnie]

Hi Madjack

Not quite, Once spot was chosen, I “walked & Poked” the ground & it was good to go for the car (deflated tyres)
but stupid, stupid me, forgots da van tyres (biscuit thin) where still hard.

Da problem happened when I swung 90 Deg to the water. The radial resistance of the ½ way sunken van wheels caused the car wheels to spin & break through the +- 100mm hard crust… den like the Titanic, down she be gone.

But it’s fun!!!

The tent U see is a simple “rally canopy” & 2 sides

Ta to U! (polishin me marble)
I’ve uploaded 3 more, think it’ll make a donor for a the cheapest TT build? The body be a plastic rotor-moulded farm water tank +-R2000, the chassis R500 / 7 = 217 dollar??


Hope you and all of you there had a splendid celebration

Warren

[sitnievasnie]

Hi to you all.

Firstly, I would like to again thank ya all for the hearty welcome & friendly replies that I’m getting. It be such a difference to our local forum which, although has potential, is pretty dull.

Sorry I ain’t bin a postin, bin a bit on the busy side. I swear the one robot’s become a bleedin drama queen, It insisted on chucking product at the setter, operator, me, CEO or anyone else who comes within range.

Having 10Kg Tupperware rice containers flying around may sound amusing… Anyhow we finally put the process back on track & I can spend some time a-composin.

Our local caravan an campin forum……..
Another Warrinism: - Complaining an no doin’ achieves zilch.

So me phoned the admin lady and wee's had a good o’l heart-to-heart. She assures me it gonna get better. When I sees this appinin I’ll post the website as there be quite a lot of info that our chaps can throw into the meltin pot an definitely visa-versa.

Photos…….
Now I’s bin runnin around this particular sandbox (an it ain’t a particularly big one) for nigh on 50 years, so I got um plenty. Problem is, they all be prints. It only be lately that mees’ got me one of these new fangled digi-camera thingies…

Many’s the trail I’ve followed round this tiddly bit O' real estate, and my travels include the gold, diamond, shipwreck, Anglo-Boer-Wars (Both), Jock of the Bushveldt and of course various famous early ox-wagon treks from the Cape into the interior an many's the tale to tell.

Undoubtedly, pictures they have their value. And may, on occasion, even be even invaluable. But most times, photos can never truly describe the sheer awesome-ness of what you are experiencing and completely excludes the emotive aspects such as humour, history or even humility. these are the things best left to the imagination.

And that folks, is what I like to try to carry over.

Well I recon' I’ve thrashed this introduction about me to bits by now, so I’ll only post here again if some kindly person replies. I only hope that somewhere along the line I’m able to throw a few chuckles your way.

Regards,
Warren.

[Miriam C.]

OH I just can't believe I got busy and missed this one. I am lousy at telling stories funny but I can relate to this one. Only mine involved a scared silly snake. I tend to freeze so the snake had the good sense to hurry away as God intended smart snakes to do.

Now you might want to think seriously about taking a potty tent when the ladies are around. Here we have chiggers (itty bitty itchy bugs you can't see) and Ticks (nasty big one's you can see but can't get out of your skin if you don't catch them.) Gotta stay outta of the grass.

The donor looks great to me. Mine was similar. The tank Don't know about that one. All ready made shells might look great but sometimes the work to modify might not be worth the trouble.

Space to work---find a mate with a nice spot and get him involved.

[Cliffmeister2000]

Welcome, Warren! Interesting pictures! Exactly how far did your caravan float before the tree rescued it?

[sitnievasnie]

Hi Cliff. Nice to make your aquaintence.

I’m not exactly shure at this stage, as park where this happened is some 750Km from Johannesburg. (Da work she be keepin me busy... First it was Tupperware now it be the 2010 stadium seats for 3 of our new "white-elephants-in-waitin'" as well)


Durban relative to Johannesburg


Umtentwenie relative to Durban


The Manager of the park has managed to send me 4 photos thus far, as he is still trying to re-establish his park.

Apparantly, it took 7 minutes from flood start to flood end and it totally devastated the entire park.

I’ve put the 4 photos into my album, but I don’t know how clear you can see it. In the first photo my van is just peeking out from behind the front van in the foreground which is ontop of a trailer.

The other two photos show some of the other vans that where written off. (Unlike mine, they apparantly filled up with water)

From what I've been told, My van ever so elegently upped and bobbed off untill it was stopped by the growth then continued to rise as the water level rose, then proceeded to come down as the water receeded comming to gently to rest unharmed! (quite a story!!)



Ive added in this pic after the postin to show how beautiful the park was a couplla months before the floods.... It's my fishin boat / transport to the beach at th river mouth which was closed at the time...



My van's the one peekin out to the left from behind the van in the foreground thats standin on the trailer



Dis one sank! By the way, this van, A Wilk Amathyst is a top-of-the range model an she no be cheap by any means... But I'm supposin just like most "modern" things it falls apart at the seams... Call me an Antique I'll take it as a compliment anytime!



An dis one she also sank!

(Ta Madjack mees a gittin there!)

The irony of the whole thing is that on our local forum I'd just posted a (sarcastic) thread questioning why modern caravans which are so expensive leak when back in my hay-days they sold vans advertised floating in swimming pools an boy where they a hell of a lot cheaper! My van's bein' about a 1991/2/3

As soon as I know more I'll "show n' tell"

Regards
Warren

[Cliffmeister2000]

Apparantly, it took 7 minutes from flood start to flood end and it totally devastated the entire park.

Wow! Was this south of Durban a bit? I read news articles about the flooding there. We have had similar flooding in the Midwestern portion of the U.S.

[sitnievasnie]

Yup...



8 Km North of Port Shepstone @ Umtentweni & 70Km South of Durban

[H@nk]

Hallo Sitnievasnie,

Met andere woorden, je bent niet aan één plaats gebonden.
Of je hebt geen levenspartner om al je pleziertjes mee te delen. Leuk om een beetje in mn eigen taal te kunnen communiceren hier op het, toch over het algemeen, engelstalige forum.

Mooie foto's en minder leuke trouwens ook.

In English:

In other words, you are not stocked to one place.
Or you have no partner for the pleasure things.
Nice to talk a little in my own language on this english/american forum.

Nice pics and also less nice pics.

Greetings from the Netherlands.

[bgordon]

Hullo Henk,

Daar is 'n paar mense op hierdie forum wat jou sal verstaan as jy in Nederlands skryf. En ek is een van hulle!

For the Non-Afrikaans speakers:
There are a number of people on this forum that will understand you if you write in Dutch. And I am one of those!

[sitnievasnie]

Groete Henk, Bly te' kenne van Suid Africka af.

Ek dink dat hierdie inskrywing is heel toepaslik hierop (Newbies introduce yourself), want dit gee nog n bietjie beligting oor my geaardheid.

Dit is wel verstommende hoe na aan die hart le' die Afrikaanse taal vir ons. Selfs die feit dat ons taal se wortels le diep in Nederlands is, is vir ons a punt van trots.

Miskien is dit wel n' goei ding dat dit hierdeur, en so ongevraagde oop-en-bloot gestel word, want op hierdie wyse ge ons ons Amerikaanse vriende so klein bietjie insig op hoe erenstig ons is om ons taal te behou.

Ja nee, ek moet dit noem, vir ons, is ons taal meer as net n' taal.... Dit is a verbingings meginisme wat deur die hele wereld strek. Die bewys hiervoor le wel in hierdie onvouende, nogtanse reedelike onbelangrike storie "hi from South Africa" dat ek begin het...

kyk net hoeveel entusastise en verwelkomende antwoorde ingestuur is... in afrikaans... Dit is regtig n' riem onder die hart...

Laat die lewe jou mooi behandel
Warren

For our English / American speaking Foruminites :thumbsup: (is there perhaps a difference... Help)

Hello Henk, from South Africa Nice to make your aquaintence.

I suppose that this posting would be appropriate on this thread, (Newbies introduce yourself) because it does throw some more light on me..

It is most surprising how near to our hearts our language is to us. Even the fact that Africkaans has it's roots buried deep in Netherland, is, for us, a point that we are proud of.

Perhaps it is a good thing that it comes in this manner, unsolicited, and so obviously, because it gives our American friends insight into how determined we are to retain our language

For us our language is more than just a language is is a binding mechinism that reaches to the furtherest corners of the Earth, the evidence be in this rather insignificant posting "hello from South Africa" that I've begun...

Just look how many enthusastic replies I have had... In Afrikaans! It is truly wonderfully supportive.

May life treat you gently
Warren

Now for the nine, yes... NINE count them... n-i-n-e other official languages.... EISH!